Disinformation

Schippers, Birgit and Powell, CH and Barkane, Irena and Puccinelli, Oscar and Viljanen, Jukka; Pajuste, Tiina, ed. (2022) Disinformation. In: Specific Threats to Human Rights Protection from the Digital Reality. Tallinn University, Tallinn, pp. 34-43.

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Abstract

Scholars, governments and commentators are using a multiplicity of terms to describe the phenomenon of disinformation. This report uses the term 'disinformation' broadly: we are treating it as an online phenomenon encapsulating the elements of the 'deliberate creation and sharing of false and/or manipulated information', 'designed, presented and promoted to intentionally cause public harm or for profit'. This conception excludes two related phenomena: these are, first, the spread of false or malicious information offline; and, second, the spread of unintentionally false or inaccurate information, which is better described as misinformation.

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